The week in higher education - 18 July 2013
University Challenge quizmaster Jeremy Paxman has entered the perennial “dumbing down” debate by claiming that today’s students are cleverer than their predecessors. Mr Paxman, who has hosted the BBC...
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Surrey considered grade targets for staff appraisals
Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union
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Bodleian’s chief librarian heads to Harvard
Sarah Thomas leaves Oxford’s Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library
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Stern words: peer’s advice for scholars in policy sphere
British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility
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Edinburgh Napier’s Hong Kong plans lose financial backing
Planned outpost at Queen’s Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest
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Croatia aims to get sector up to union standard
Newest union member will apply national and European resources to improve qualifications, access and research
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Pushing at the open door
One of the main topics in recent discussions about higher education in Scotland has concerned access to universities by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. For a country with strong support for...
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Capital gains and pains
Malcolm Gillies on London universities’ pros and cons
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One voice on widening Scottish access
One of the main topics in recent discussions about higher education in Scotland has concerned access to universities by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. For a country with strong support for...
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Aaron Rosen discusses how the UK is improving upon the US liberal arts model
The UK has not simply adopted the US liberal arts approach, argues Aaron Rosen: it has also enhanced it
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Malcolm Gillies - Capital partnerships
London’s universities are all in the same goldfish bowl, says Malcolm Gillies
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Thomas Docherty warns that the need for speed kills learning and crushes reason
Structural impatience disguised as ‘efficiency’ diminishes the university and demeans the student, Thomas Docherty warns
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Folkloric and avant-garde, ancient and Modernist
In two African artists’ work, Shahidha Bari finds moving and complex artistic synthesis as well as knowing provocation
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Five-year test
The subcontinent plans to create capacity for an extra 10 million students in five years, with particular emphasis on quality of education. But how?
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Unexpected debt yield: parents and students in line for rude awakening
Students and parents are underestimating the true cost of university, a survey carried out on behalf of the Association of Investment Companies has suggested.While the average debt for students...